diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index c3eb7ce6cb4..73a0f7936b5 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -100,6 +100,8 @@ Release 2.0.3-alpha - Unreleased
     MAPREDUCE-4924. flakey test: org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TestClusterMRNotification.testMR. 
     (rkanter via tucu)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-4923. Add toString method to TaggedInputSplit. (sandyr via tucu)
+
 Release 2.0.2-alpha - 2012-09-07 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/lib/TaggedInputSplit.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/lib/TaggedInputSplit.java
index 9b75a13c781..494e1c10611 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/lib/TaggedInputSplit.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/lib/TaggedInputSplit.java
@@ -138,4 +138,9 @@ class TaggedInputSplit implements Configurable, InputSplit {
     this.conf = conf;
   }
 
+  @Override
+  public String toString() {
+    return inputSplit.toString();
+  }
+
 }
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/input/TaggedInputSplit.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/input/TaggedInputSplit.java
index 7762f1dd1b6..fd07d00fa7d 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/input/TaggedInputSplit.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/input/TaggedInputSplit.java
@@ -157,4 +157,9 @@ class TaggedInputSplit extends InputSplit implements Configurable, Writable {
     this.conf = conf;
   }
 
+  @Override
+  public String toString() {
+    return inputSplit.toString();
+  }
+
 }